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Chapter 24: Human Population (no headnote)

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Selections in this chapter:

Thomas R. Malthus, from An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798, revised 1826), [808] Go
Anup Shah, from Ecology and the Crisis of Overpopulation: Future Prospects for Global Sustainability (1998), [811] Go
Barry Commoner, from The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology (1971), [815] Go
J. H. Parry, from The Spanish Seaborne Empire (1966), [818] Go
Jared Diamond, from “Lethal Gift of Livestock” in Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997), [823] Go
Joel E. Cohen, from How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1995), [827] Go

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